quotes about Protocol

“It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other”

“Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it”

“When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.”

“I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.”

“When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

“A babe is fed with milk and praise.”

“In the distance someone is singing.”

“Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!”

“I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.”

Source : "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.

“From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”